MEET THE TEAM! 

Kelann Currie-Williams is a visual artist, oral historian, and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.  Kelann is currently a PhD student in the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program (HUMA) where their doctoral project focuses on the image-making and photographic image preservation practices taken up by Black Canadians during the late 19th to late 20th century, as well as the presence of these photographs within personal, community, and institutional photographic archives. Their critical work has appeared in Urban History Review, the Canadian Journal of History, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and is forthcoming in Philosophy of Photography. Kelann is an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) as well as a member of the Post Image cluster (Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology). 
Originally from Brampton, Ontario, Ra’anaa Brown received her Bachelors of Architectural Studies and Masters of Architecture at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. She is currently pursuing her PhD research on the intersection of Black art and activism (artivism) at Concordia University. Ra'anaa is the Co-Founder and President of Black Lives Matter Sudbury and Installation Coordinator for Up Here: Urban Arts Festival. She has participated in and curated numerous artivist initiatives and has contributed her talents to the development of many Afrocentric artistic installations. Ra'anaa has taken on many leadership roles, as an artist, activist and academic creating space for people of colour and continually promoting anti-racist practices and social justice.
Nicholas Raffoul is a writer and artist committed to an anti-colonial art and research practice. Nicholas received a BA in Art History from McGill University in Tiohtià:ke or Montreal. At McGill, Nicholas was the editor-in-chief of Canvas, the undergraduate journal of Art History and Communications. He is currently an MA student in the Art History program at Concordia University. His research interests are concerned with Internet visualities, ethnic futurisms, decolonial art histories, and new media art by contemporary Arab artists. Nicholas is an Advisory Board member for the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery at NSCAD University.
Koby Rogers Hall is an artist, writer and social practice facilitator dedicated to dialogical arts practices, archiving as cultural activism, and public interventions for political engagement. She has facilitated long-term multi-stakeholder projects with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, the Politics & Care project, and the tactical media Living Archives installation, while she continues to teach in the departments of Theatre and School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia. Her PhD research-creation supports her ongoing engagement in migrant justice in social arts practices, with considerations for performance in conflict zones, critical curatorial strategies and trauma in social movements. She integrates this with her commitment to radical mothering, collective care practices, and community liberatory projects.
Karina Roman Justo is an emerging writer, educator, researcher and curator based in Montreal. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from OCAD University, where she was the recipient of the Graduation Award in 2020. There she also led the Journal of Visual & Critical Studies. She has published reviews in diverse publications like the Senses and Society Journal. Karina coordinated the Mentorship Program at Sur Gallery (2019-2020) and curated the Making Spaces exhibitions as part of the program’s culmination. She was also the education assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada (2020-2021). Karina’s research is led by a decolonial critical lens. She is soon to start an MA in Art History at Concordia University.
Daisy Duncan
is an emerging writer and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Daisy received a BFA in Art History from Concordia University, and is currently an MA student in the Concordia Art History graduate program. Her writing has been featured in various Montreal-based journals and publications, and her previous curatorial work includes projects with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, and the FOFA Gallery, QC. Her research interests are centred around the intersections between excess, affect, and materiality within contemporary queer and feminist art practices. 
Temple Marucci-Campbell is an emerging scholar and writer completing her master's in art history at Concordia University. Her research focuses on the sensorial and immaterial transmission of Black-Canadian histories through intersections of art and food. She began her research in this area of focus at OCAD University, where she completed her BFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practices. Some of her more recent curatorial work was completed in collaboration with Vtape and The Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. 

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